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“The First Task of Government Is To Make Large Numbers of People Governable.”
Started this discussion. Last reply by Stephen Brodie May 13, 2018. 1 Reply 1 Like
That’s what a sociologist told me after I became politically active.How does government do that? Borrowing from Robert Burns, “Let me count the ways.”Religion is one way, and religion makes other…Continue
“Once a Catholic, always a Catholic” or “Don’t toss the baby with the bath water.” How would you reply?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris Nov 14, 2018. 8 Replies 0 Likes
A man who has tried several times to quit Catholicism, but each time returned, gave me the first of those lines. i had quit in 1957 and told him I’d never heard that but had often heard “Once a…Continue
Tags: Catholicism, Catholic
Tell Neil deGrasse Tyson You Want Evidence
Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris May 13, 2018. 9 Replies 0 Likes
Evidence? For what?For his claim early in Chapter One of his Astrophysics for People in a Hurry that “nearly 14 billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known…Continue
Tags: claim, astrophysics, universe, faith, evidence
The Big Bang Doesn't Deserve Your Faith. It Also Doesn't Deserve Your Tax Money
Started this discussion. Last reply by Tom Sarbeck Dec 29, 2017. 6 Replies 0 Likes
I once heard a Unitarian minister say Unitarianism is for people who haven't kicked the church habit.The Big Bang is for people who haven't kicked the faith habit.It has preachers. They make claims.…Continue
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"How do mothers (usually) bring up boys to respect women as equals?
Huh????
That's like asking: How do mothers (or fathers) bring up their boys/girls to respect people as equals?
I'm pretty old and it never occurred to me as a child that…"
"I wonder is religion is a kind of "self-hypnosis"?"
"The power of mathematics is almost limitless.
But I'm not so sure that mathematics can actually "describe" the universe. Can mathematics describe a flower?; a mountain?; a human being? Granted, mathematics can certainly…"
"Agreed, there is no group of people that are better or lesser than the rest, politically. It's the genetics that differs, and results in many differences."
"Respect women as "equals"???
What about homosexuals, blacks, transgendered, the disabled, etc. There Is only ONE ISSUE:
ALL human beings have equal rights. Therefore ALL humans must be respected as equal.
Of course, that doesn't mean…"
"How can it be called theoretical when it keeps so many mathematicians off welfare/the dole/etc? (evil grin)"
"Investor capitalism will bring down the Big Bang religion.
A strange meme.
The revised https://www.aureon.ca has evidence for it.
Nothing has evidence for the Big Bang."
"Don't know should be everyone's default position, at least until you do."
"My favorite origin myth is “I don’t know.”
It leaves me with time to do much else."
"My favorite origin myth is “I don’t know.”
It leaves me with time to do much else."
"The Electric Universe wins.
Visit https://www.safireproject.com
or https://www.aureon.ca
Bye bye Big Bang."
"Sell your fossil fuel shares. For info visit
http://www.aureon.ca
To see video info, click on “movies”. Scroll down for intro and history; scoll up for current info."
"The Big Bang is not science; it's religion. It has no evidence.
Forget Dr. Frieman and Ethan Siegal. Go with the astronomer Edwin Hubble who said the universe is unbounded in space and time.
For reading that will start you toward fact, not…"
"Here, maybe, is 20 minutes of panpipes music. I once heard it on an oar-powered trip thru the Grand Canyon.
https://youtu.be/GsZEMaZHPTYY"
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"In a grave rights don't matter. I'm not in a grave so they do matter.
Or a line I heard in a Goth movie: No, you can't have my rights; I'm still using them."
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- Studied math, economics & physics. Retired from computer mfg.
- What brought you to Atheist Universe?
- At birth a None. At six my dad put me in a Catholic School. At 26 I escaped to agnosticism. No lightning bolts hit nearby and at 78 I came out to friends as an atheist. A chat with a pal brought me to AU.
Comment Wall (11 comments)
- At 3:12pm on December 13, 2017,
Stephen Brodie said…
Happy Birthday Tom. Have a smashing day
- At 9:13am on December 13, 2016,
Yes Tom that really would be a smashing day when your country rids itself of the Electoral College. But all the best mate anyway.
- At 3:09am on December 13, 2016,
Happy Birthday Tom. Have a smashing day. All the best my friend.
- At 4:43pm on May 24, 2016,
Bertold Brautigan said…
Must have been in church.
- At 11:21pm on December 13, 2015,
De Nada my friend I hope you had a great day
- At 7:04pm on December 13, 2015,
Happy Birthday Tom my friend have a smashing day from us all at AU
- At 12:57pm on June 8, 2015,
Wasiq Hussain said…
Thanks Tom sir :) ..
- At 1:45am on June 7, 2015,
Yes i did say that and its true. Because it focuses on the study of nature. again and again we are told in my religion to look around and discover, travel,gain knowledge,have good physical strength.. in my religion No one says that you have to worship God.You just have to believe that he exists.. I cant give more details because of the rules of this page. But its your choice what you want to do in life no one can make you believe or make you follow what is uncomfortable to you.
- At 7:51pm on December 13, 2014,
Happy Birthday Tom. Have a great day, enjoy it!
- At 1:31pm on August 26, 2014,
Hi Tom welcome to AU hope you like it on site
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